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This program (containing two inductions - initial and subsequent) will guide you into a pleasant state of deep relaxation through voice, the gentle sounds of the sea, positive visualisation, affirmations, and dreamy musical ambience.
In this hypnotic state, you will access, and reprogram, your subconscious mind to enable you to take control and overcome the tobacco habit.
For optimum results this program should be listened to in its entirety.
Even if you fall asleep during the program the desired positive results will still manifest.
This program does not contain any subliminal message elements.
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The 'Quit Smoking' Program contains voice, the gentle sounds of the sea, positive visualisation, and dreamy musical ambience, and you will be guided through the session.
Listen to the Initial Induction for three to four days before listening to the Subsequent Induction. Listen to the program every day in a time and place where you can give it your full attention and have the freedom to thoroughly relax.
Never listen to this program while driving or operating a machine - it contains a potent relaxation technique that requires you to become deeply and completely relaxed.
Although this technique may be new to you, it is completely safe and natural.
If you are listening before sleeping (recommended), you will drift into a pleasant and restful sleep after the program ends.
Even if you fall asleep during the program, the powerful suggestions will still reach your subconscious mind, have a positive effect, and will manifest maximum results.
Listening to this program at any other time also induces a state of deep relaxation, from which you will return refreshed.
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"This is a straightforward and self-contained program that worked for me. For a long time, I have been trying to stop smoking, and I've tried it all, but I just couldn't give up that last fag. I listened to this program every night in bed and within a few weeks I was a non-smoker. Yes, I had cravings, but the program really helped me to deal with everything."
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Just lay back, relax, let go, and through inaudible subliminal messages, the balmy sounds of the sea and soothing musical ambience, achieve the overcoming of your smoking habit.
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I was born... with the natural ability... to succeed in all that I do... and I am succeeding... now... in quitting smoking... I have made... a non-negotiable decision... to stop smoking... I have quit smoking... one day at a time... Every day I do not smoke... is a victory... that I am proud of... I am... now... a non-smoker... Etc...
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The Inaudible Subliminal elements (inductions, affirmations, etc) are the same as the Audible elements (inductions, affirmations, etc) which are used in the equivalent Hypnosis Program.
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Opinion: Why raising Social Security's 'full retirement age' is a bad idea
Increasing Social Security's full retirement age from 65 to 67 will reduce the percentage of benefits that workers may claim earlier than the FRA, according to this opinion column in MarketWatch. Meanwhile, those who intend to increase their retirement age from 66 to 67 to claim full monthly benefits will receive benefits for one less year. Low-paid workers, who were more likely to retire early than high-wage earners, will be especially affected in the event of continuous FRA increases.
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In New York, we visited NIX, a vegetarian restaurant in Lower Manhattan that was recently awarded its first Michelin star.
K and I are what you'd call 'flexitarians'. We limit our meat intake to two or three days a week – the other days we balance out our diet with vegetables. So when we were in New York we couldn't wait to try NIX.
One of their most popular dishes, is their tandoor bread with dips. We try the onion dip with pickled cippolinis. We are crazy about this dish! The tandoor is soft and fluffy and the dips are so deliciously creamy we had to order a second plate.
We continue with a light starter of market lettuces with apples, herbs and flowers and the flavorful kabocha squash dumplings with celery and chili oil. The latter is an example of the creativity we need with vegetarian cuisine. My mother (a vegetarian) would love the dumpling!
For our mains, we go with the cauliflower tempura with steamed buns and pickles (one of my new favorite buns) and the beet burger with horseradish cream, apples and cucumber. The beet even had a nice char and was juicy and the horseradish cream went beautifully with it..
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RT (h/t Maria J) Investigators believe the two men were plotting to bomb a chemical weapons storage and destruction facility in Russia's Kirov Region, 1,000km east of Moscow. The suspects are thought to belong to the fundamentalist Wahhabi Islamist movement.
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Investigators did not specify which organizations, or how the suspected terrorists would attempt to influence them.
Russian authorities raided the abandoned property where the suspects, aged 21 and 19, were residing. The two men were reportedly in possession of "literature with extremist content" and one of them allegedly resisted arrest. Furthermore, investigators found and confiscated the components of a homemade, explosive device on the premises as well as two international passports.


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From dealing with underperformers to fighting off lawsuits, employee problems are the bane of a manager's existence. So what do most do? Ignore them!
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And each story suggests simple strategies to turn the situation around. The memorable lessons help managers motivate underachievers, defuse angry employees, discipline without inviting legal action—and handle every tricky-people issue they simply can't avoid.
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Since 1992 Jason has been creating one of a kind unique jewelry and selling these creations at top art shows in the country. His inspiration comes from the ancient art of wire wrapping and he is considered to be a master in his art form, winning several awards in his medium. He creates individual works of art by enhancing the intrinsic beauty of each precious and semi-precious gemstone using the finest metals including Gold, Gold filled, and Sterling Silver.


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By J.T. Whitehouse
The Boardman High School weight room recently received $3,000 worth of new equipment, thanks to a grant from the National Football League Foundation.
It is the second NFL grant Boardman head football coach Joe Ignazio received.
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Boardman High School football players and athletes show off the new weight room equipment that came from an NFL Foundation grant. Pictured, in the front kneeling, are Evan Walton, Eddie Cotez, Eron Walton, Bobby Toth, Jahiem Johnson, Josh Kennedy, Jimmy Hoffman, Neil Bevacqua, Brandon Kuehn, Nick Yallech, Nate Cuttica and Alex Patterson. Standing in back are Sam Santangelo, Zach Hillard, Justin Wagner, Donovan Roberts, Mike Morris, Alex Huzicka, Lou Craven, Kenny Reece, Ceaonnie Jones, Mason Melia and Gary Walker.
In 2014, Ignazio submitted a grant application to the NFL Foundation to purchase new uniforms. It was part of the NFL opportunity to match a $5,000 donation from former Boardman alumni and current Green Bay Packer center Corey Linsley. The total of $10,000 went towards the new uniforms.
The NFL Foundation is the league's nonprofit organization that represents the 32 NFL clubs. Its mission is to support the health, safety and wellness of athletes, youth football and the communities that support the game.
Last year, Ignazio learned of another NFL Foundation grant for schools that had players in an NFL Super Bowl game. Boardman had two - Bernie Kosar and Steve Vallos. The school received a golden football for each of those players and also was informed of a grant opportunity the school could apply for. It was all part of the 50th Super Bowl celebration.
After submitting a grant application, Boardman was awarded a check for $3,000 in August 2016, and the new equipment was ordered and received in December. The football team is now in conditioning, using the equipment to stay in shape for football season in fall.
"This is the second grant I have obtained. The first was a matching grant," Ignazio said. "These grants were written specifically by me for football. I sought ways to try to receive them to give back to our program."
The recent grant replaced equipment that was dated back to 2004. Included in the purchase were 65 new stretch bands, seven new weight lifting bars, two hex bars, 12 medicine balls and two compact dragging sleds.
"It was an easy decision for me," Ignazio said. "Our weight room has been a foundation in which we have built our program dating back to head football coach D.J. Ogilvie. It continued under Mark D'Eramo. Our kids take great pride in the hard work that goes into that room. I wanted to give something nice back to them that they would get use out of every day."
The football team is in the weight room 12 months out of the year. The only stipulation is the Ohio High School Athletic Association requires a no contact period 28 days after the season ends.
Ignazio said in Boardman, the team usually begins the offseason program in December. When the season begins, the team will lift two days a week and maintain that through the season. He added the new equipment is not football specific and is available for anyone using the facility.
Ignazio also thanked two Boardman staff memebers who helped secure the NFL grants.
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Jewish law requires that a tombstone be prepared, so that the deceased will not be forgotten and the grave will not be desecrated. It is customary in some communities to keep the tombstone veiled, or to delay in putting it up, until the end of the 12-month mourning period. The idea underlying this custom is that the dead will not be forgotten when he or she is being mourned every day. In communities where this custom is observed, there is generally a formal unveiling ceremony when the tombstone is revealed.
What is written on a tombstone? In most cases, it is very straightforward Hebrew text, similar to what you might see on a tombstone in English.
At the top is the abbreviation Pei-Nun, which stands for either "poh nitman" or "poh nikbar", which means "here lies..." The marks that look like quotation marks are commonly used to indicate an abbreviation or a number written in letters.
The next line is the name of the decedent, in the form (decedent's name), son of or daughter of [father's name]. "Son of" is either ben or bar. "Daughter of" is bat .Sometimes, one or both of the names is preceded by the letter Reish, which simply stands for "Reb" and means "Mr." The names may also be followed by the title ha-Kohein), ha-Levi or ha-Rav, indicating that the person was a Kohen, Levite or Rabbi.
The third line indicates the date of death. This line begins with the abbreviation Nun-Pei followed by the date, the month, and the year. The date and year are written in Hebrew numerals, which are letters.
The last line is an abbreviation that stands for "tehe nishmatah tzerurah bitzror hachayim," which means "may her soul be bound in the bond of eternal life."
You may also find Jewish symbols on a tombstone, such as a Menora, Torah Scroll, Star of David, a lion, or the two tablets of the Ten Commandments. Most of these symbols don't tell you anything about the decedent (other than the fact that he or she was Jewish). However, if you see a picture of hands in an interjoined position, this normally indicates that the decedent was a Kohen, because this hand position is used when the Kohanim (Priests) bless the congregation at certain times of the year.
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1949 Buick Super Woody Station Wagon
Rick Chincarini's Buick is a rare car indeed. Only 1500 Super woody wagons and 600 roadmasters were built in 1949.
Not only that, but this partiuclar car has been all around the world — through Europe via the Carpathian Mountains into Poland, the Ukraine, southern Russia, across the Caspian Sea to Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan and into China.
The car was part of the Around the World in 80 Days Rally which saw 42 entrants circle the globe in the year 2000.
Rick's wagon is covered in Chinese writing because when Buick was starting up manufacturing in China the car was used for promotional purposes.
''It's even been to the Great Wall of China,'' Rick said.
On arrival in Peking (now Beijing), the cars were loaded on to an Antonov aircraft which organisers had hired for the rally.
They were flown to Alaska and made their way across the United States to New York City.
From there, it was another airlift operation to Casablanca, Morocco and then along the fringe of the Sahara Desert to Tangier for a short ferry crossing to Spain, on through France and back to the start line in London.
Considering what it has gone through, it is incredible the nearly 70-year-old wagon is still running — and in largely original condition.
Rick, from Melbourne, has owned the handbuilt car for the past three years.
The previous owners were Americans Pat and Mary Brooks who drove the car in Around the World rally.
''They were flagged off at the start of the rally by (British formula one racing driver) Stirling Moss at the Tower Bridge in London,'' Rick said.
The car has a 248 Straight-8 engine and Rick says he is trying to keep the car as original as possible because of its history.
''The wheels and brakes are from the round the world trip and it's still got the rally meter in it.
''The carpet is original, the leather seats are 95 per cent original and the wood is 97 per cent original.
''It's still the original specs from the factory standard car apart from the four-wheel-drive tyres from the rally.''
Rick's love for Buicks started when he was in year 9, when he bought his first Buick. ''I've still got it — a 1927 Roadster,'' he said. ''I've got five Buicks on the road. They're just so reliable.''
1930 Roadster
Hedley and Barbara Dearling bought their two-door Roadster off a gentleman who lived 3km around the corner from their home in Toowoomba, Queensland.
''He was an old guy who had it for 40 years,'' Hedley said.
''I've known this car since the 1980s but never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd be owning it one day.''
The Dearlings are only the fourth owners of the vehicle.
''The original owner was from Thangool, south of Biloela in Queensland, and it was a Captain Evans,'' Barbara said.
''That's what he called himself but we don't know anything about him.''
While a lot of the body of the car is still the same as when they bought it, the Dearlings have had to perform a lot of work on the running gear.
''Mechanically, everything from the radiator to the rear end has been changed,'' Hedley said.
A school teacher by trade, Hedley already owned a Buick Roadster when he picked this one up.
''The first one came to us by accident out of a paddock and I'm still working on it,'' he said.
''It's the same year and model as this one which I got because I thought it would compliment the one I already had.
''I was getting close to retirement and I was looking for a hobby.''
Although admitting to being ''very naive mechanically'', Hedley's restoration of the vehicle has been most impressive.
The Roadster has been on some long distances, including to Cairns, Perth and even Hobart.
''Even school teachers can drive Buicks,'' Barbara said.
''This is our principal hobby now. We take it on holidays and it's a social network for all the people we meet. ''The vintage car clubs are great clubs and they're great people to be with.''
1910 Buick Model 14B
George Gillott's 1910 Roadster is the oldest Buick in Echuca-Moama for the anniversary celebrations.
It was the oldest in Australia for many years but George has heard of someone who has imported a 1907 vehicle from the United States. Still, he is pretty happy with the car he owns. ''I've had it for 15 years,'' George said of the 14B.
''It originally came out from America in pieces and a guy called Jim Eisenhauer had it.
''I bought it off him because he was getting too old to keep up with it (the maintenance).
''He could have sold it to someone in America but he wanted to see it kept here in Australia and be used.''
George does use the car, driving it regularly although it did come down to Echuca-Moama on the back of a trailer from his home in Sydney. ''It goes alright,'' George said. The car is in pretty much the same condition as when George bought it, including the leprechaun logo on the side of the car.
''Everything's pretty good. It's very reliable and Buicks are renowned for that.
''It has a three-litre two-cylinder engine and a two-speed gearbox. It can go from walking speed to 80km/h in top gear.''
It has kerosene fuelled side lights and acetylene gas headlights but they're not that effective.
''I can't see the road with them,'' George said, meaning he doesn't try to drive it at night.
The only real drawback is the lack of wipers. ''I'd like to have a windscreen in this weather,'' George said, referring to the rain.
George Gillot and his 1910 Buick Model 14B.
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A film that some people are saying is probably the most appropriate film to show at a festival was Cinemania. It is about a group of hard-core cinephiles whose lives are based around going to the movies to the detrainment of everything else.
What makes this film so good is the characters involved and that they are left to tell their
own story as there is no narration or interviewer in the film. This works on the principle
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There are some strange characters covered in the documentary, but my favourite would
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I liked the scene when they showed the finished documentary to the people in it and they
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Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 46:1-47:7 / 1 Timothy 6:3-21 / Psalm 119:73-80
The American Dream is a set of ideals that define freedom as an opportunity for prosperity, success, and an upward advancement achieved through hard work. Life in America is to be better, richer and fuller for everyone. Opportunities for success are possible regardless of social class, status or birth. Millions of immigrants have come to the United States to pursue a better, productive and richer life.
We have discovered that the American Dream does not dissolve economic lines between rich and poor. The federal poverty level for a family of 4 in the United States is at $23,550. The number of Americans living at or below the poverty line is at 15%. Above them is the middle class with a median income level of $51,107. Finally, 1% to 2% percent of Americans are considered upper class.
Paul's words to Timothy address this topic of "riches". "Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment." (1 Timothy 6:17) It is foolish to place our hope in riches that are valued by an unstable and uncertain system. Our volatile market and economy changes daily and is just a catastrophe away from collapse.
It is God who provides for us and gives us everything we need in life to be content and joyous. Paul also writes, "Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share." (vs.18) Sharing is not giving our "extras" but giving "what we have". Yes, some have "extra" to share but those are blessings of God in our lives so that we can be a generous and godly blessing to others.
In actuality, being "rich" is relative depending on the economic comparisons. If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep ... you are richer than seventy five percent of the people in the world. If your family income is $10,000 a year, you are wealthier than 84 percent of the world. Almost half the world, 3 billion people, lives on less than $2.50 a day and 80% of the world live on less than $10.00 a day.
Finally, Paul writes, "In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life." (vs.19) True life is not measured by what we have in this world but what we have stored up in eternity. There is nothing like being "rich" in generosity and giving.
God is the giver of all good things and He gave us the greatest gift of His Son. He has also placed within us the riches of His glory, grace and goodness. So be faithful with the blessings that God has given you. No matter what we have or do not have…God makes us "rich".
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Before joining MAXX, Mitch worked in a number of different areas across the sports industry. His previous assignments include Octagon's NBA Activation team, where he worked closely with Sprint's national activation team on the implementation of its NBA marketing program. As an intern at BDA Sports Management in Santa Monica, CA, Mitch focused on "all things marketing" and client services. Mitch also worked with the basketball operations department of the former New Jersey (Brooklyn) Nets, when they played regular season games in the United Kingdom in 2011.
TV has also been a big part of his life and career. He has worked as a Production Assistant for FOX Sports West/Prime Ticket in Los Angeles, CA and worked freelance for ESPN in college when they would televise Syracuse University's basketball games from the SU campus. As the son of a longtime coordinating producer at ESPN, he has been around the TV scene for as long as he can remember.
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Entrepreneurs don't become a success overnight. There is no magic bullet. The beauty of success is that everyone has a different definition of it. But the measurement of success is the same for all people. You know that in order to achieve anything worthwhile, you need a burning desire to achieve. Small desires= small outcomes. A huge burning desire = huge outcomes of achievement. To be the best your desire needs to be nuclear!!!
Those who started from nothing and built huge success for themselves have one thing in common: An unyielding focus and work ethic.
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Mastery Takes Effort. Successful athletes are made by the blood, sweat, and tears they put into honing their natural talents. Chess masters have played tens of thousands of games of chess. A concert pianist practices his craft every day, sometimes for hours on end. Being an entrepreneur should be the same way. Learn your craft and become the expert in it. How many things can you do perfectly? If your answer is anything other than one, and you are a small start-up on a shoe-string, guess what? You are an idiot. Rome wasn't built in a day, neither was Google. Both were built brick by brick, scaled and then, and only then, did they diversify. Keep your business plan simple, because if it's not simple, you're dead. Of course finding something you are passionate about and love doing everyday makes the task of putting in that extra effort easier.
Learning is great as long as you go to the School of Hard Knocks.
Think about it like riding a bike. You can show me all day how to do it and the best way to do it, but until I try it myself, I am never going to learn. Learning entrepreneurship in abstractly in school is inane. The best way to become an entrepreneur is to try building a business. One of the most overlooked concepts of entrepreneurship is not business savvy, it's learning from your mistakes. In basketball you have to shoot 50pct.; If you make an extra 10 shots per hundred, you are an All-Star. In baseball you have to get a hit 30 pct of the time. If you get an extra 10 hits per hundred at bats, you are on the cover of every magazine, lead off every SportsCenter and make the Hall of Fame.
In Business, the odds are a little different. You don't have to break the Mendoza line (hitting .200). In fact, it doesn't matter how many times you strike out. In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once. Sir James Dyson, creator of the Dyson Vacuum Cleaner failed 5,126. Today, Dyson makes the best-selling vacuum cleaner by revenue in the United States and is one of the richest men in all the world. But it took him 15 years and nearly his entire savings to develop his bag-less, transparent creation. His latest innovation, a hand dryer that uses neither heat nor evaporation, took only three years, but Dyson says his grinding, error-filled approach hasn't changed.
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If the focus of money is your #1 motivator, you will not succeed. Your business ( and YOU) will be viewed by everyone else as transactional instead of relational. Even with the best product or service, you still need strong relations to succeed in any marketplace. Respect is at the heart of business relationships. Respect leads to recognition. If you're not respecting (and recognizing) the people around you – employees, vendors, customers or clients, How in the world can you ever accomplish what we want to accomplish if you don't bring the people around you with you. Respect in business is highly important to the success of your company.
Think about it. How would you feel if you were on the other side of the conversation? If you were the one not being respected or your work wasn't appreciated? Would you have great performance or would you do the minimal of what was absolutely necessary to get by? It's the same thing when your client or customer knows that you are only a paycheck or a commission. Nobody wants to be taken for granted. Because when they know that relationship is not part of your business philosophy, you can hang it up. No one will patronage you business.
Be Flexible and Creative
Too many aspiring entrepreneurs think their initial idea and inspiration requires the most important creative thinking. Experience entrepreneurs will tell them that's the easy part. It's the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative challenges. This brings me back to the abstract way of how schools teach entrepreneurship. Our education and training to logically associate related concepts reduces our ability to add the creative side to the equation, even though we were all born without that bias. Maybe that's why "thinking outside the box" is so rare. If you want to teach me How To Think Outside The Box, then you need to be out of the box too.Traditional business plans will bankrupt you. Don't get stuck in analysis paralysis! Business planning is not a revenue generating exercise. Execution is where the money is at.
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) will continue with a Constitutional Court case against President Jacob Zuma next Tuesday over the Nkandla spending debacle.
This comes after Zuma proposed that the Auditor-General and the Minister of Finance should determine the amount he should repay of the R246 million spent on his private home.
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The DA notes the settlement offer proposed by the President last night, but in it's view, the offer doesn't comply with the remedial action set out by the Public Protector.— Rahima Essop, EWN reporter
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"We should be clear about the source of this violence," Tillerson said during a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna.
"Russia is arming, leading, training and fighting alongside anti-government forces. We call on Russia and its proxies to end its harassment, intimidation and its attacks on the OSCE special monitoring mission."
He said the Kremlin's annexation of Crimea in 2014 that sparked the Ukraine crisis has been the reason why the relationship between the two countries have soured.
Tillerson, who will meet with his Moscow counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, later Thursday, said the US will "never accept Russia's occupation and attempted annexation" of Crimea and will continue sanctions until the peninsula is returned to full control of Ukraine.
"In eastern Ukraine we join our European partners in maintaining sanctions until Russia withdraws its forces from the Donbass and meets its Minsk commitments," Tillerson said, referring to a previous peace proposal.
The OSCE has around 600 unarmed monitors in Ukraine and the US and European leaders are considering adding United Nations peacekeepers to the county to bolster them.
Tillerson said the UN forces should also have peacekeeping powers, including the authority to disarm Russian-backed separatists.
"Russia's aggression in Ukraine remains the biggest threat to European security," he said on Wednesday.
More than 10,000 people have been killed in the fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels.
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Climate Wars provides a concise coverage of the history of Climate Change politics in Australia and offers a plan for the future.
"Australia has a strong culture of intergenerational equity - making sure our children / grandchildren aren't left to foot the bill for things we knowingly neglected to deal with ourselves."
Such statements underlie the intention to provide policy and direction to help address Climate Change. Climate Wars presents a historical narrative that sets the stage for policy going forward.
The book presents lots of facts across the spectrum of Climate Change, and provides a good story on climate change and politics within Australia during the last two decades and clearly articulates the local political arguments put forward for and against.
The book is too focused on the Liberal Party's inaction what they won't do in the future. I think it should have taken more of a positive tone on the premise that when Labor returns to power then this is the plan of what Labor will do for the Nation.
The early chapters of the book address the history of climate change politics and the later chapters look at what Labor plans to do to address one of the greatest challenges ahead of this Nation.
As well the history and current government policies on Climate Change, Climate Wars briefly covers some of the policies on Climate Change in other countries and the actions culminating in the Paris agreement. Particular emphasis is given to the UK, and its recent bipartisan agreement on the carbon budget. By 2025 the UK, birthplace of the post-industrial coal industry, will be coal power free.
Comparisons between other countries and Australia throughout the book provide an idea of what is possible in addressing Climate Change sector by sector. For example, the setting a floor price on carbon permits for electricity generation. Canada recently ruled that all Canadian provinces are required to have a price on carbon by 2018, compliant with national floor price of $10/tonne (which ratchets up each year to $50/tonne).
Butler describes the "Australia Clause" in Kyoto protocol, which allows reductions in land sector emissions to be counted towards Australia's commitments. However, the book notes that recent land cleared in QLD included land that was accounted for in the Kyoto protocol!
The Paris agreement and Climate Change framework are detailed, and provides clarity on such gems as the example of a country that only takes responsibility for emissions produced within its borders – so what happens to all the emissions produced on the high seas? Where are they counted?
An interesting point was that the Paris agreement includes a 5-yearly ratchet mechanism, starting in 2018. If Australia is failing to meet its current commitments, how are we going to handle more serious cuts to carbon emissions?
One exciting prospect, noted in the book, is that the Paris agreement opens a global market for carbon credits in 2020. This means that Australians can sell not just buy carbon credits. Does this mean we get a carbon trading market in spite of the current Federal government? This is called the "Sustainable Development Mechanism" (and replaces Kyoto units).
The book explains that rich nations should aim to be producing 'Net Zero Emissions' by 2050 and that any carbon pollution by then will need to be offset by measures such as carbon sinks in the land sector or abated though technology like Carbon Capture Storage (CCS) and notes that Federal Labor and NSW Liberal governments have committed to this. Butler discusses that the Land and Agriculture sectors present the largest opportunity to capture carbon pollution, through methods such as soil carbon sequestration, and afforestation. However, it also notes, Australia is one of the very few (and most prominent) developed nations still producing net emissions from the land sector.
The book details the recently popular term in the media, "Clean Coal" (HELE technology) and CCS. Their shortcomings are covered well, and one interestingly notes that the COAL21 fund (provided to research CCS) was not only was used to promote coal use in Australia and overseas, but it was also used to finance advertising campaigns and political polling – not the usual use of research funding!
Climate Wars is endowed with interesting facts, such as the average consumption during 2007-2015 decreasing by over 20% through energy efficiency, but energy retail prices increased by 100%. The poor performance Australia has shown in Energy Efficiency gets a mention, including historical reversal in programs including: Victoria's plans to reduce electricity consumption through greater energy efficiency were reversed to 'fatten the pig' for the utility sale, and that WA government wound-back the state's efficiency programs as they were eating into the state-owned generator's profits. I like the idea proposed that there needs to be an obligation to disclose property's energy efficiency rating to potential buyers/tenants.
I found some of the interesting terms used in the book that included:
"Carbon leakage": price on carbon pollution forces local operations to close and to be replaced by product made elsewhere.
"Tragedy of the Commons" – which is the economic concept describing the challenge involved in trying to manage the sustainability of a common – or shared – resource when self-interest drives the individuals who have access to the resource to get as much out of it as they can.
"Dutch Disease" – Where a boom in one export industry (e.g. mining) forces up local currency and wages, therefore hurting competitiveness of import-competing industry (local manufacturers).
Climate Wars provides a good background into the "gold plating" of the electricity network that affected electricity prices in recent years. I will reproduce some of it below. In the early 2000s average household consumption of electricity rose by 10% as air conditioners rose from 1/3 to 2/3 of households, which increased pressure on the electricity networks. The nature of air conditioner use is that households tend to be switch on appliances at same time, giving a great peak/spike in electricity load to the network. This led to greater investment to peaking plants and, more importantly, to an increased number of blackouts. The public backlash led policymakers to push for greater reliability in the network. These are similar to calls from the current Federal government following recent SA power outages. This in turn led to "gold-plating" – This is excessive amounts of capital dedicated to upgrading the poles and wires of the National Electricity Market (NEM). In some states, the network asset values doubled! Pricing arrangements for monopolies allowed them to recover all these costs from consumers plus a healthy profit margin. Nelson (AGL) stated that "policy makers overreacted to reliability and security of supply concerns by implementing measures that allowed electricity networks to overspend relative to what was required". The Network is now a quarter of the power bill. Fascinating stuff!
The book mentions the deficiencies of the current setup for the NEM. The author's consultation noted a broad l consensus that "there needs to be a clear plan to modernise the electricity sector" and that the current structure and rules of the NEM are no longer fit for purpose. It also mentions one of my pet peeves, that neither the NEM objective nor its rules reflect the 3rd driver of modern electricity policy – the imperative of decreasing carbon pollution.
Climate Wars notes that Climate and energy policy has been heavily dominated by debate on how to protect the competitiveness of those industries described as 'emissions intensive, trade exposed'. It covers strategic domestic capability in these high emission industries and the need for it to be reflected in policy, for example, steelmaking, cement, aluminium and petroleum refining. I will leave it there about the strategic need for petroleum refining given the recent upsurge in Electric Vehicle (EV) use in other countries.
EV's do get a mention, although briefly, with no real indication of Labor's supporting policies for their rollout in Australia. Fuel efficiency standards do get a brief look, with the interesting fact that the Toyota Corolla in UK is twice as fuel efficient as the Australian model.
Climate Wars gives a good coverage of the recent and potential future of coal in Australia. Australia is the world's largest exporter of coal, and interestingly, Qld is biggest supplier of coking coal, with Australia supplying 60% of the world demand. It also notes that half of coal exports are thermal coal and if long term price projections are correct, with 80% thermal coal exported the struggle over the future of coal is noted as primarily a struggle over thermal coal with the long term viability of many coal operations remaining in doubt. Specifically, the book states about Adani, that there is a very broadly held view that The Carmichael mine is simply not financially viable. However, Adani has its own port facilities and power stations that could take a hit on the mine to ensure supply.
The transition of the domestic power industry (particularly the thermal coal power stations) is importantly included in the book. It notes that around three quarters of NEM's thermal power plants have exceeded their original design life. Taking a leaf out of Obama's book, it suggests that there needs to be a more orderly approach to renewal of the nation's electricity fleet. For example, Obama planned closures based on emissions intensity, and included the interesting fact from Sierra Club that since 2010, 240 out of 520 US Coal fired power stations have either been retired or had retirement dates announced.
It was good to see coverage of the history of gas industry that helps to give context to the historical politics and policies and a synopsis of the issues surrounding gas supply and demand. It noted that Australia is expected to become the largest exporter of LNG, and that Eastern Australia faces a gas shortage with rising prices there are gas industry assumptions that the Coal Seam Gas (CSG) yield estimates to satisfy Gladstone LNG operations were "heroic". The book describes fugitive emissions (10% emissions and growing) from underground coal mines that are technically difficult and expensive to prevent. It notes that a carbon trading system needs to take fugitive emissions into account.
"The development of a stable, confident, renewable energy industry in this country has been patchy" – that can't be restated enough. Climate Wars states that gas-fired power is an essential 'bridge' to a clean renewable energy future. The book notes that a modern electricity system with high levels of renewable energy is going to need to manage the intermittent nature of wind and solar power, and suggests this will be done in part by gas generators. Interesting facts on renewable energy include Australia's cost advantage (capacity) on Wind and Solar compared with other countries. For example, Wind 45% capacity c.f. China's 25%; Solar 20% capacity c.f. 15-16% in US & China. The book only gives a cursory look to Community Energy with the Community Power Network.
It was disappointing to see little on Climate Change Adaptation – this is an important part of addressing Climate Change and clear policy in this area could be paramount to an overall solution to this global issue.
Finally, it was great to see Newcastle included in the book: "Newcastle has become a centre of excellence in electricity networks and solar thermal technology".
This book provided a great synopsis of the history of domestic politics in Australia on Climate Change, and gives us an insight to what a Federal Labor government can do to address the greatest challenge of our time – Climate Change.
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Newton Farm Shop, in the picturesque village of Newton St Loe, sells seasonal and fresh produce sourced direct from their family farm; the Tithebarn Workshops in Bradford-on-Avon showcase the work of local artists and craftspeople; and the myriad of regular markets in Frome are perfect for browsing handmade items and produce.
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